Army offensives and U.S. missile strikes are believed to have decreased militant attacks in Pakistan, but the violence is far from ended. A look at some of the major attacks so far in 2010: _ July 9: A pair of suicide bombers kill 62 people and wound 111 in the Mohmand tribal region. _ July 2: Twin suicide bombers attack Pakistan's most revered Sufi shrine in the eastern city of Lahore, killing 47 people and wounding 180. _ May 29: Two teams of seven militants armed with hand grenades, suicide vests and assault rifles attack two mosques of the Ahmadi minority sect in Lahore, killing 97 and wounding dozens. _ May 18: A remote-controlled bomb kills 13 people, including three police, in Dera Ismail Khan, a northwestern city hosting thousands of tribesmen displaced from a military offensive in South Waziristan. _ April 19: A suicide bomber apparently targeting police at a conservative Islamic party rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar kills 23 and wounds more than 30. _ April 18: Two burqa-clad suicide bombers attack refugees lined up to register for food and other relief supplies in Kohat district in the northwest, killing 41 people and wounding dozens more. _ April 5: Militants unleash a car bomb and grenade attack against the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, killing four people. _ April 5: Hours before the consulate attack, a suicide bomber attacks a rally of an anti-Taliban political party in Lower Dir district, killing 45 people and wounding more than 70. _ March 13: Two suicide bombers targeting army vehicles in Lahore kill more than 55 and wound more than 100. _ March 8: A suicide bomber rams an explosives-laden vehicle into a building where police interrogate high-value terror suspects in Lahore, killing 13 people and wounding 45 others. _ Feb. 18: A bomb tears through a mosque in the Khyber tribal region, killing 29 people and wounding 50 more. _ Feb. 5: Two bombs targeting the Shiite Muslim minority sect in southern Karachi city kill 33 and wound 176. _ Feb. 3: A suicide bomber kills three U.S. servicemen and three civilians in the northwest's Lower Dir region. _ Jan. 1: A suicide bomber drives a truckload of explosives into a volleyball field in Lakki Marwat district in the northwest, killing at least 96 people and wounding more than 100.
Major militant attacks in Pakistan in 2010
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